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What are you doing with your CE? I'm on the fence about keeping mine
I plan on canceling it, though I'm being lazy in calling up 1-888-BESTBUY to do so (I used a gift card that I don't have anymore to pay for it). I really just want the steelbook and Best Buy offers that for free when you preorder the game by itself, plus the statue and other extras don't look worth the additional $70+.

 
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Snowed a decent amount here over night.  A lot of accidents on the roads supposedly.  I just emailed my boss and said I am taking the day off.  I am not dealing with this shit.

More Uncharted GA today.

 
I plan on canceling it, though I'm being lazy in calling up 1-888-BESTBUY to do so (I used a gift card that I don't have anymore to pay for it). I really just want the steelbook and Best Buy offers that for free when you preorder the game by itself, plus the statue and other extras don't look worth the additional $70+.
i didn't know they were giving the steelbook with the game. may cancel my gamestop preorder now, and just get it from bestbuy.

 
I watched Better Call Saul last night and thought it was okay.  Its just building.  Then I made the mistake of reading a review of the episode. 

Why the fuck do people have to review a TV show and try to find all this deep meaning in it?  What the fuck man, its a fuck ing TV show!  It isnt real life!  There is no deep meaning!  It is fuck ing entertainment!!  If it doesnt entertain me, who the fuck cares!?! 

Jesus.

Okay enough religion talk.

 
Yeah... I think I'm going to cave and just buy all the Vita JRPGs. Just spent $80 on PSN credit from eBay that I really don't have to spend right now on digital games to stick in my backlog. :wall:

Getting Rorona regardless to complete the trilogy since the sales on those are seldom. I like the price on Sword Art as well and would rather have Tales of Hearts digital so hopefully I'll be able to get something close to the $30 I paid back for my sealed copy (maybe someone will refuse to shop at GS or something). I would rather have Diva F 2nd at the $12 the first game went on sale at but don't know when that will happen so with discounts on the credit and the $15 back I may just bite on that. With my purchases from this week I would be just under $82 and I'm sure I can find another $20 worth of stuff to buy.

I'm all over Sword Art. I was kicking myself when I missed it for $20 several weeks ago, it was the first time I've ever known about a sale then forgot and missed the window. Tales of Hearts I'll likely pick up and keep my copy sealed. Little Kings Story is a must as well.

I really wish Monster Monpiece would go back up in price so it would stop tempting me. I'm a card game/deckbuilder fanatic but it just doesn't look like it has enough depth/nuance/uniqueness for me to be satisfied with it.

 
#killallzombies update is supposed to be up now that adds multiplayer to the game. if anyone else bought it during that indie sale last month
I was playing co-op with a buddy on sunday. Its nice having the extra player to help with the waves, but you also share levels/number of perks and the perks that only affect one person only apply to the person that activated it so that sucks. They did throw in choices that allow you to give the perk to your friend as well though.

 
I think we should re pick the pinball tournament machine because their simulation of Scared Stiff has a pretty big flaw, at least on PS4. If two balls get into the crate at the same time they get stuck and keep scoring jackpots over and over. I tried to get them out and was able to by shaking the machine gingerly, but not before getting probably 8 or 9 crate jackpots that way. Moreover something similar happened during one of my monster multiballs, though in that case they weren't scoring jackpots, but it did lead to a one ball multiball. Shaking didn't help there, but the Call Attendant option could be used once that ball drained, but again I ended up with one ball multiball. Eventually I got them all free and proceeded to lose them all because the camera got stuck looking at the plunger lane. Oh, Farsight.

Anyway, maybe we should pick a different table?
 
I watched Better Call Saul last night and thought it was okay. Its just building. Then I made the mistake of reading a review of the episode.

Why the fuck do people have to review a TV show and try to find all this deep meaning in it? What the fuck man, its a fuck ing TV show! It isnt real life! There is no deep meaning! It is fuck ing entertainment!! If it doesnt entertain me, who the fuck cares!?!

Jesus.

Okay enough religion talk.
Yeah.....but you still read it.

TV show review 1 - Pharm 0

 
I think we should re pick the pinball tournament machine because their simulation of Scared Stiff has a pretty big flaw, at least on PS4. If two balls get into the crate at the same time they get stuck and keep scoring jackpots over and over. I tried to get them out and was able to by shaking the machine gingerly, but not before getting probably 8 or 9 crate jackpots that way. Moreover something similar happened during one of my monster multiballs, though in that case they weren't scoring jackpots, but it did lead to a one ball multiball. Shaking didn't help there, but the Call Attendant option could be used once that ball drained, but again I ended up with one ball multiball. Eventually I got them all free and proceeded to lose them all because the camera got stuck looking at the plunger lane. Oh, Farsight.

Anyway, maybe we should pick a different table?
I had two balls get stuck in the crate last night on Vita as well. I didn't have to shake it and it sorted itself out after scoring me 5 or 6 jackpots.

I guess I'm indifferent on the table switching. On one hand, I think you have to have perfect shots to get the two stuck in there. On the other hand, fuck your obscenely high score already.

 
Feels like temp here is 20 with a regular temp of 31.  Weird.

Also, I'm already out of likes.  You likable assholes are all assholes.

 
I read the first paragraph then skimmed the rest because I could see where it was going. There were like 10 paragraphs Zimm! Maybe you should read it. Boom!
Hey as long as you clicked on it, they win. They don't care if you actually read it or not.

I got into the TV show review reading game during Lost, to make sure I didn't miss any weird easter eggs and got everything they were talking about. I read them occasionally now if I'm bored at work.

 
There are some shows out there that obviously try to put deeper meanings into things. Lost did it all the time, and even Breaking Bad did a little bit. I don't mind when people try to find meanings in a show, but I get bothered when people think every single thing has to mean something. Like with Breaking Bad when people started going crazy about the colors that Walt would be wearing and how they all meant something. And then the costume designer was like oh yeah I just dressed him however I felt. People still searched for some meaning behind the clothes after they already fucking said there was none. That shit pisses me off.
 
There are some shows out there that obviously try to put deeper meanings into things. Lost did it all the time, and even Breaking Bad did a little bit. I don't mind when people try to find meanings in a show, but I get bothered when people think every single thing has to mean something. Like with Breaking Bad when people started going crazy about the colors that Walt would be wearing and how they all meant something. And then the costume designer was like oh yeah I just dressed him however I felt. People still searched for some meaning behind the clothes after they already fucking said there was none. That shit pisses me off.
That's probably the "I found it first" mentality that people want to feel. They want to be the first person on reddit to discover this big secret easter egg so they can get mentioned on Buzzfeed, so they reach with go-go gadget arms to something that is just dum.

I know I started over-analyzing everything towards the end of Lost, but then I got out of control and just stepped back and enjoyed the shit out of it because it's the best.

 
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Rocksteady is so awesome:

[Rocksteady founder and game director Sefton Hill:] "From our point of view, we never wrote [Arkham Knight] or made it with a rating in mind. We never did that in the previous two games... We just felt that this is the story that we really wanted to tell. In terms of creating the story, with such strong characters, sometimes they lead you in interesting directions. They lead you because you know who they are and you build the world around that."
...

"I'm not blind to the fact that [the M rating] does mean some fans will miss out... I don't want to be oblivious to that fact. It would have been wrong to water down the game and deliver a story we didn't believe in to keep the game "mass market" or enable it for more people. We feel that's the wrong way to go about it. We said we love the story and we don't want to jepoardize [sic] that."
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/02/24/batman-arkham-knight-shows-bruce-wayne-at-his-darkest

 
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I was playing co-op with a buddy on sunday. Its nice having the extra player to help with the waves, but you also share levels/number of perks and the perks that only affect one person only apply to the person that activated it so that sucks. They did throw in choices that allow you to give the perk to your friend as well though.
yeah, the perk thing kind of sucks. still has to be infinitely more fun with someone else on the field as well. passing perks sounds pretty sweet too.

 
Holy freaking crap, Arkham Knight is rated M: http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/02/24/batman-arkham-knight-is-rated-m

:shock:

#GotYconfirmed
As excited as I am for it, I feel bad for my 7 year old who's been playing the other Arkham games with me and really enjoys them. But more than likely it's one of those "borderline" M games that just barely missed the T rating. If that's the case I'll probably still let him play it some; just gotta see what all pushed it over the edge.

 
As excited as I am for it, I feel bad for my 7 year old who's been playing the other Arkham games with me and really enjoys them. But more than likely it's one of those "borderline" M games that just barely missed the T rating. If that's the case I'll probably still let him play it some; just gotta see what all pushed it over the edge.
It doesn't really explain the rating, but the game director said this:

"As the end of the trilogy, we have every villain in Gotham working together to destroy Batman," Hill said. "It's unavoidable that some bad stuff is going to happen. But that doesn't mean we changed our approach. We're not including gratuitous blood or swearing. We want to deliver a true end with no compromises, and it takes us to some dark places."
 
I really wish The Witcher 3 wasn't being released just one week before Arkham Knight. I just know the former will take 100+ hours to plat, but there's no way I won't immediately start up the latter once I get it. :joystick:

 
I guess the Paypal issue on eBay has something to do with my IP address, as I was just now able to get the $50 PSN credit for $40 without any issues on my work laptop.
I couldn't make the purchase from home or work. I ended up calling PayPal. They had to fix something on their end. The first guy said it was resolved but to wait 30 minutes. No luck. 2nd guy actually fixed it and had me verify it worked on the phone before I disconnected.

Got my PSN codes 12 minutes later.

 
Not interested in getting into a religious debate, but I am interested in hearing why exactly you think this isn't real. You think there's never been a Mormon with second thoughts that walked away from their faith?

I kept expecting some weird twist or miracle to take place while I was reading it but it ended like some confused diary entry. There wasn't even anything entertaining about it, which makes me wonder why you would even post it.

Oh wait...
Have you read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? There's a scene where Arthur goes to the train station. He buys his ticket, a box of cookies, and a newspaper. He sits down across the table from another man who is waiting for the train and puts down his cookies and newspaper. He looks around the station for a minute, then back in front of him just in time to see the other guy open the box of cookies and eat one. Arthur is offended and completely upset about the guy eating one of his cookies, but he doesn't know how to deal with the situation--it'd be too impolite to confront the guy about it. So Arthur says nothing and eats one of the cookies himself. The two of them work through the box, each eating one cookie at a time. Shortly after the box is empty a train arrives. The other man gets up to get on the train. Arthur sits there fuming over the guy's rudeness for a few minutes, then picks up his newspaper. Underneath the newspaper is Arthur's box of cookies--he'd been eating the other guy's the whole time.

The scene is a few pages long and is probably my favorite part of the series. The reason I posted the picture above is because it reads very similarly to me; the picture story is written from the point of view of the Mormon, but it could have been written from the point of view of the Islamic man and had been an identical experience. Reading it, it feels like this must be an attempt to show how religious beliefs are mirrored no matter what the actual religion is.

The picture could be real, I suppose. If it is then that's an amazing lack of self-awareness from the person who wrote it.

Here's another thing it makes me think of:

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Have you read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? There's a scene where Arthur goes to the train station. He buys his ticket, a box of cookies, and a newspaper. He sits down across the table from another man who is waiting for the train and puts down his cookies and newspaper. He looks around the station for a minute, then back in front of him just in time to see the other guy open the box of cookies and eat one. Arthur is offended and completely upset about the guy eating one of his cookies, but he doesn't know how to deal with the situation--it'd be too impolite to confront the guy about it. So Arthur says nothing and eats one of the cookies himself. The two of them work through the box, each eating one cookie at a time. Shortly after the box is empty a train arrives. The other man gets up to get on the train. Arthur sits there fuming over the guy's rudeness for a few minutes, then picks up his newspaper. Underneath the newspaper is Arthur's box of cookies--he'd been eating the other guy's the whole time.

The scene is a few pages long and is probably my favorite part of the series. The reason I posted the picture above is because it reads very similarly to me; the picture story is written from the point of view of the Mormon, but it could have been written from the point of view of the Islamic man and had been an identical experience. Reading it, it feels like this must be an attempt to show how religious beliefs are mirrored no matter what the actual religion is.

The picture could be real, I suppose. If it is then that's an amazing lack of self-awareness from the person who wrote it.

Here's another thing it makes me think of:

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Played through the first half of dust last night. Forgot how much fun this game is. I'll probably power through the rest of it tonight, and get started on Transistor tomorrow. Also started Monster Hunter 4 last night and that's going to be a time sink, but I want to at least finish Dust before I really get started with that one. 

Also wasn't able to get the payment to go through for the PSN cards, but I'd rather just pay the $10 than deal with CS on either side. Tried to run it from home, work, and my phone with no luck. 

 
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